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“War Stories” from the Romney camp? Don’t make me laugh.

If you haven’t heard enough about the 2012 presidential campaign, you probably would enjoy a program this evening at Harvard University titled “War Stories: Inside Campaign 2012.” David Axelrod and Jim Messina from the Obama campaign and Eric Fehrnstrom and Stuart Stevens from the Romney campaign will participate. <source>

In case you are in the neighborhood and have interest in attending this nonsense, let me save you the trouble and summarize the “War Stories” that are likely to be heard:

From David Axelrod and Jim Messina:

‘We began running attack ads in Ohio and other battleground states as soon as Romney won the nomination – six months before the election – in which we demonized this successful and decent man, turning him into a conniving, heartless capitalist pig who would help his rich friends at the expense of the middle class instead of allowing him to showcase his true record of success on behalf of so many people, including the citizens of Massachusetts and the employees of so many companies he saved and restructured and led to prosperity…’

Audience question:

“But Mr. Axelrod, in fact Barack Obama is the politician who has been helping his rich friends, particularly those on Wall Street as Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times has written ad nauseum, at the expense of the middle class, and Mitt Romney would have ended corruption and lifted the whole country up — don’t you know that?”

Axelrod / Messina:

‘Of course we know that — what do you think we are, stupid? What’s your point? We were attacked by our own party for going negative and asked “Where is the positive messianic Obama from 2008?” But we knew that six months of vicious ads would win us the election long before the debates even took place, and of course it worked like a charm’

From Eric Fehrnstrom and Stuart Stevens:

‘As for our strategy in the political war, well, we didn’t want to go negative, it’s not our style.’

Audience question:

“But Mr. Fehrnstrom, Barack Obama has added $6 trillion to the federal debt without any job creation or economic rebound, destroyed American health care while creating a massive new entitlement that immediately adds trillions of unfunded future liabilities to an already bankrupt federal treasury, violated the Constitution by granting amnesty to millions of illegals in a blatant grab for votes, ignored Wall Street crimes, failed to reform Wall Street abuses, hobbled the American energy industry, depleted the U.S. military on wars of his own making and then announced plans to dramatically reduce funding for the military, overseen and in some cases directly supported the Jihadist Muslim takeover of several Middle Eastern countries, fomented class warfare by keeping people jobless and arousing soul-destroying feelings of envy and hatred of thy hard-working neighbors, the list goes on and on (the Justice Department!?) — he is no Democrat, this is a man who exists wholly outside the American political landscape…in fact his actions suggest he is an enemy agent that campaigned his way into the White House and is smashing the Pieta that is America without any signs of slowing down.”

Fehrnstrom / Stuart Stevens:

‘Yeah, so?’

Audience response:

“SO?”

“Just face it: you two were never in a political “war”. You were not even playing with toy soldiers, you were playing with dolls in country club dresses. You had the easiest opponent in American history and you couldn’t bury him with his own malignant record. For shame.”

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If the Romney that had shown up at the first debate had continued to attend all the rallies and the other two debates. We would be reading news stories about obama’s return to Chicago, how he, in the end showed he was no leader (which is without a doubt true) we would be happy, hopeful that this country would be headed in the right direction. Political war my butt. Is it today? or was it yesterday that Romney was to have lunch at the White house with the fraud?